New York City in 2022. Half the 40-million people in the swarming metropolis are unemployed, the air is thick with pollution, food and water are as precious as jewels. This was the world of the future as envisaged in the sci-fi thriller, Soylent Green, in 1973.
We smile affectionately at the Morris dancers and bow if introduced to the Queen. But it does seem to me that in the matter of ”games”, such as those currently taking place in Manchester, north-west England, we are taking tradition too far to be healthy.
Northern Ireland faces a ”nightmare scenario” with Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein becoming the dominant parties and the peace process in such trouble that it would take a generation to resolve, First Minister David Trimble said this week.
FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela plans to visit the Libyan
secret agent imprisoned in Glasgow for planting the bomb on a plane that
killed 270 people over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, a Sunday
paper said.
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A British family doctor convicted of killing 15 patients, and suspected of killing 200 or more, was found dead in his prison cell on Tuesday, the British Prison Service said. Dr Harold Shipman was found hanging in his cell at Wakefield Prison in northern England at 6.20am and was pronounced dead at 8:10am.
A fiberglass bust that purportedly shows the true face of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun went on display this week at London’s Science Museum.
An Italian is among the suspects who have been arrested in connection with the main Bali bombing. Newspapers identified him as Andrea Giovanni Sorteni, 38, from Milan, and said he was detained soon after the devastating attack on the Sari Club.
The United Nations chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, yesterday accused hawks in Washington, who are bent on going to war with Iraq, of conducting a smear campaign against him.
A male nurse who admitted lighting the fire that killed the billionaire banker Edmond Safra was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in prison, bringing to an end an extraordinary tragedy of errors that rocked the wealthy Mediterranean enclave of Monaco to its foundations.
The reputation of Silvio Berlusconi’s government sank to a new low at the weekend when newspapers published photographs of members of his coalition casting multiple votes.
The bankers of Cape plc — the company that reached an out-of-court settlement with asbestosis victims last year — would be held personally responsible if it is proved they were responsible for reneging on the agreement, says the victims’ legal counsel.
South African financial services group Investec Plc detailed plans on Monday to raise nearly 100-million pounds via a London share sale to expand its businesses, braving jittery stock markets.
The Aids epidemic is causing the spiralling disintegration of some of the poorest countries in Africa, precipitating famine and social, political and economic collapse, says the latest official United Nations update.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has told a British member of parliament that he will implement United Nations resolutions and allow arms inspectors into his country.
An English court has ruled that a father should get custody of his two children because his ex-wife uses the Internet to meet men.
Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries while they remain far more expensive for the rich, will be launched today by Clare Short in a bid to cut the vast numbers dying from Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
Say what you like about Nelson Mandela, but he is not a man known to bear a grudge or lose his temper easily.
Sega, the creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, expects profits to be squashed this year after the slow release of new titles and poor returns from the Tokyo stock market.
A Chinese woman with HIV has married her partner in a widely reported ceremony in Beijing which illustrates changing attitudes in China towards the country’s growing Aids crisis.
”I landed lying down on my back and reached for my camera — it felt amazingly heavy, like a huge 50lb lead dumbbell. It was incredible. Just putting one foot in front of the other required tremendous effort.”
Former family doctor Harold Shipman, sentenced to life imprisonment for 15 murders, in fact killed nearly 300 of his patients, according to an official inquiry whose results may be published this week, press reports said on Monday.
Indonesian state terrorism, backed by Britain, America and Australia, is to blame for the deadly Bali bombings, prominent Australian journalist John Pilger argued in an essay published on Wednesday.
The rains have come to the undulating pastures of northern Matabeleland. In the bread basket of Zimbabwe, the seed should be in the ground by now. But instead the rural poor are bracing themselves for a catastrophe on a scale not seen since the Matabeleland massacres a generation ago.
The Chinese Communist party opened its doors to all social classes yesterday in an attempt to become the party of the whole nation — while maintaining its monopoly on power.
The sale of an expensive British military air traffic control system to Tanzania, one of the world’s poorest countries, is to be condemned in a report by the World Bank.
The US government and the giant pharmaceutical companies are continuing to bully poor countries to tighten up their patent rules, hampering efforts to obtain cheap medicines for people with diseases such as HIV/Aids, according to a new report.
In a year-long experiment called LaughLab, a British psychology professor asked thousands of people around the world to rate the humour value of a list of jokes. The online search has produced a winner.
This week’s public row between Australia and south-east Asia has thrown into sharp focus a truth that many in the region have realised for some time: after years of living as a peaceable power a new, more aggressive Australia is emerging.
More than 40 years after his death, the novelist Ernest Hemingway is playing a key part in the delicate relations between the country of his birth and his adopted home. The Cuban government is to work with American scholars and descendants of the man who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls in a unique project to preserve the writer’s legacy.
A man wanted for questioning about a murder in which the victim’s body parts were found strewn around a housing project has fled to New York.
Three in 10 young people cannot find the Pacific ocean. Hint: it covers one third of the planet on a world map.
On the other side of the world from the White House, the brutal dictator of a rogue state where millions are close to starvation is stealthily acquiring the nuclear arsenal and missiles to threaten tens of thousands US troops and two stalwart American allies.